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Rectangular concrete pillbox - faces E. [Ref: SU84/87].
(Source: Field Visit 1988/08/03)
Rectangular concrete-faced pillbox - faces E. [Possibly experimental?]. All concrete with internal blast walls. Rectangular - 2.5m x 4m. Single rifle size embrasure with slotted metal plate in short face; only room for one person to fire. Some spalling around embrasure. [Digital archive - Surrey Industrial Society].
(Source: Field Visit 1989/07/01)
Concrete bunker 12ft x 9ft overall. Some 4ft - 5ft 5ins is above ground and c.4ft below ground. Concrete about 1ft thick. Axis approx. NW-SE, with viewing aperture [embrasure] in SE wall. Entrance NW end of S wall - partially filled in (probably steps down with now missing steel door). Now surrounded by trees which would not have been there in 1940. Interior - 2 rooms with blast wall dividing. [Recorder describes this as a 'hardened mortar OP which overlooks a firing impact area to SE with mortar firing positions to W of ridge. However, it may have been used as well for pre D-Day assault training as the embrasure has received a direct hit from an explosive missile].
(Source: Field Visit 1996/05/27)


      

        Type of site
        PILLBOX (ASSAULT TRAINING)
      

      

        Location
        Kettlebury Hill, Hankley Common, E of Rushmoor.

      

      

        Area
        
 
 Thursley, Surrey, England

        		
       

      

        Grid reference
        
            SU 8803 4048
             (Scale: 1:25000
              , 1980)
            

        		
      

      

        Period
        WW2

      

      

        Condition
        Good

      

      

        Materials
        
            Reinforced Concrete
        
      

      

        Threats
        
            Type: Deterioration (Medium Term) 
Detail: Some spalling around embrasure [this is shell impact damage].

        		
      

      

        Recorder
        Simmons, S.A.
      

      

        Attached Sheets
        (3) - site location map and pages with attached photographs.

      

      

        Photographs
        
View of PILLBOX (ASSAULT TRAINING) - S0010023
         

     (6) - site, exterior, and close up views (1 DIGITISED).  		
      

      

        DOB site reference:
        S0010023

      


      

        Event
        
            Construction, In the period 1940 1941

            Field Visit, On 1989/07/01 

            Field Visit, On 1988/08/03 

            Field Visit, On 1996/05/27 

        		
      

    



  




    

				













    

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